This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980 … to employers their productivity, a change in the schooling equilibrium should not affect their earnings. Four testable …

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings of male dropouts, utilizing the Texas … Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission … who failed the GED exams after the passing standard hike, we find no evidence of a positive ?GED effect? on earnings. The …

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants … predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across …

migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …